Airwriting: demonstrating mobile text input by 3D-space handwriting

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Amma;Tanja Schultz

  • Affiliations:
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We demonstrate our airwriting interface for mobile hands-free text entry. The interface enables a user to input text into a computer by writing in the air like on an imaginary blackboard. Hand motion is measured by an accelerometer and a gyroscope attached to the back of the hand and data is sent wirelessly to the processing computer. The system can continuously recognize arbitrary sentences based on a predefined vocabulary in real-time. The recognizer uses Hidden Markov Models (HMM) together with a statistical language model. We achieve a user-independent word error rate of 11% for a 8K vocabulary based on an experiment with nine users.